Saturday, October 15, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016

5 Lesser Known But Powerful Tools to Increase your Productivity

In this day and age, we all need some help with our productivity – be it for business or for personal use. This is why we see a new tool coming up to increase your productivity every other day.

I have been working with such tools and having used a large number of productivity enhancing tools, I have decided to go with these 5 tools. The first 3 tools will help you increase productivity with your business’ social media management and the last two are for your personal use.

1. Recur Post

The first tool, and my personal favorite of all 5 ,in the list, is Recur Post. It allows you to create libraries of your evergreen content and then schedule it to post on your social networks in a recurring manner. For instance, you can add 30 of your best blog posts into a library and then ask it to post one update daily on your Twitter account. This takes care of keeping your Twitter account updated forever and posts only get repeated after 30 days.

You can create multiple libraries such as “My Blogs”, “Other People’s Content”, “Witty Quotes” etc. Each library can have your evergreen social updates and you can then schedule when and where should an update be posted.

Once an update has been posted on a social platform, it will sit at the end of the queue to be posted again once everything else has been posted.

2. Text Free App

The second tool is actually a suite of tools. The best tool in this suite, in my opinion, is TweeLinks. It allows you to enter a few screen names (Twitter usernames) and it will tell you which links are shared by those people.

This is good for outreach with influencers. If you see someone sharing a lot of links from one or two websites then you can use that information to connect with them. It gives you an ice breaker to start the conversation.

They also have a tool that can tell you the most popular Tweets around a topic. You could use those Tweets to schedule your next Tweets.

3. Promise or Pay

Promise or Pay is a great idea to get you motivated. Are you slacking on your promises to go to the gym, or to take your wife out on a dinner date? Then you can use a little bit of social pressure on yourself with Promise or Pay.

You commit to pay a certain amount to charity if you do not perform a task. You then invite your social contacts to commit some money towards your success. They will stay updated with your progress and you will now know that they are all watching you, so the pressure makes you move.

In the end, you pay money to a charity of your choice so it is a noble cause as well.

4. Eyecare 20 20 20

If you are in front of a bright screen for long hours then your eyes could use some help. Doctors recommend that you should be taking regular breaks at 20 minutes each.

There is a 20-20-20 rule that says you should look at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. However, it is not easy to keep track of time so this app helps you a lot. You can download it on your Android as well as iPhone, iPad etc.

5. f.lux

If you are a Mac user, you probably already know how Macs adjust the brightness based on the amount of light around them. This helps your eyes a lot with reducing strain.

If you are not a Mac user you can download f.lux app to get the same advantage. F.lux app makes your computer screen adapt to the surrounding light. When you are in a room with low light, it will make your computer screen look warm and during the day it makes it look like sunlight. It’s a free app and is available for all platforms, including Mac, Windows and Linux.